Love Hurts

This is Love Hurts. Amber Rollo is a comedian living in Los Angeles. In the beginning of March 2020, Amber decided to call off her two-year engagement. Instead of having a clean break, her and her ex suddenly had to shelter-in-place for the pandemic, and she was stuck spending much more time around someone she wasn’t planning on being with anymore.  Amber is doing a live recording of her comedy al...

This is Love Hurts. Mark Pagán is a filmmaker and audio producer living in Brooklyn. Growing up, Mark had two half-brothers who were much older than him, and as a result, he never felt very close to them. Then, something happened when he was an adult that changed the way he connected to each of them in his life. Mark is the Host and Producer of Other Men Need Help , a podcast that looks at how men...

This is Love Hurts. Erin Barker is a storyteller who normally lives in New York City. When the pandemic hit last spring, Erin and her husband made the decision to leave NYC to stay with their best couple friends in Ohio until everything blew over. Almost a year later, Erin is still in Ohio, and she talks about what it was like making the choice to leave the city she loved and navigating living wit...

This is Love Hurts. As a celebration of our 100th episode, we’re checking in with past guests to see what’s happened in their lives since we last spoke. This episode’s guest: Kambri Crews . When Kambri was first on, she shared about her tenuous relationship with her dad, who has been in prison since the early 2000s for attempted murder. In this episode, she shares about their journey to get him pa...

This is Love Hurts. Meg Joh is a comedian and podcaster living in Los Angeles. During college, Meg found herself in the second big relationship of her life at a time where she was still unsure of who she was. When it suddenly ended Meg was left heartbroken, but as she looks back at the story today she sees the real love story was with someone else all along.  Check out Forever Babe , Meg’s podcast...

This is Love Hurts. Fred Chong Rutherford is a comedian and storyteller living in Brooklyn. Growing up, Fred’s experiences with racism shaped him into the type of person who wanted to make sure he made others feel comfortable. Fred looks back at a potential bonding moment with his white step-grandmother that turned into an uncomfortable conversation about race that he did his best to navigate as a...

This is Love Hurts. Zack Stovall is a comedian and storyteller living in New York City. After five years of dating his girlfriend, Zack felt like it was finally time to pop the question. However, the plan he put in place quickly fell apart, and he was left scrambling to figure out how to make sure this moment was still memorable when it felt like nothing was going right.  Zack is a producer for St...

This is Love Hurts. Julie Feltman is a comedian and performer living in New York City. Growing up, Julie’s identity felt tied to the fact that her relative invented the hot dog. It seemed to be the most interesting thing about her family history, but this summer she learned a new story about the other side of her family that changed how she looked at her identity and family legacy. Julie’s tragedy...

92: Grant Bowen - You’re The One That I Want This is Love Hurts. I’m Bryan Berlin. Grant Bowen is an actor, writer, and storyteller living in New York. In high school, Grant played Danny in the production of Grease and ended up falling for the girl playing Sandy. They went on a date and there wasn’t really a spark, but Grant felt he had to find a way to create one. The story ends in an embarrassin...

This is Love Hurts. Julia Pugachevsky is a writer, editor, and video producer living in Brooklyn. Growing up, Julia had mainly one close friend through middle and high school. When they got to college, they started to drift apart, and continued to drift until her friend ghosted on their friendship. She shares the fallout of that experience, and we also talk about the way the ups and downs of femal...

90: Tracey Segarra - This Is Your Brain On Love This is Love Hurts. Tracey Segarra is a storyteller living on Long Island. In high school, Tracey fell hard for someone who felt totally out of her league. After college, they reconnected and started dating, but Tracey found herself intoxicated by the fairy tale of their story instead of the reality of what it actually was and had to try and break th...

This is Love Hurts. Bill Dempsey is a producer and storyteller living in Connecticut. Bill struggled to fit in his first year of college until he found his people in the theater program. He deeply connected with another guy and they started spending all their time together. It was only when Bill got a girlfriend that he realized they didn’t see their friendship the same way. Our theme song is EmoT...

This is Love Hurts. Vernon Payne is a storyteller and comedian living in Brooklyn. In high school, Vernon fell in love for the first time, but the relationship didn’t end the way he hoped it would. Years later, Vernon was given a second chance when she showed up back in his life, but he put even more pressure on himself to make sure there was a happy ending. Our theme song is EmoTown by Mikki Homm...

This is Love Hurts. Carla Katz is a comic and storyteller living in Hoboken. Carla left for college at a young age and found herself falling for a mentor. They had an affair that led to Carla questioning where she was going in her life, and ending up changing everything, only to reconnect with him years later. Our theme song is EmoTown by Mikki Hommel . Follow Love Hurts on Instagram , Facebook ,...

This is Love Hurts. Lily Womble is a dating coach living in Brooklyn. In her first serious adult relationship, Lily found herself constantly lowering her expectations of what she wanted while being a positive force for other women’s dating lives as a matchmaker. Eventually, she changed her dating mindset and found love while finding a new way to help others find love too. Lily started her own dati...

This is Love Hurts. Anne Latini is a graphic designer living in Los Angeles. As she was finishing college, Anne found herself entering into a relationship that checked all the boxes of what she felt an adult relationship should be. But a few years later her life started to stray from her plan, and when it suddenly all blew up she had to figure out what to do next. Anne works in magazines and wants...

This is Love Hurts. Kevin Allison is the creator and host of RISK! , a podcast where people share stories that they never thought they’d share in public. The first sexual experience Kevin had after his marriage ended at 40 really stuck with him, so much so that he shared the story of that heartbreak days after it happened on his podcast. In our conversation, he looks back on that story and how he’...

This is Love Hurts. Will Clegg is a filmmaker and storyteller living in New Jersey. At the end of his junior year of college, Will fell in love for the first time. Unfortunately, they had to spend the summer apart while he was studying abroad in Italy where a play, a fever, and the girl next door came together to put his first love in jeopardy. Will’s show, Awkward Teenage Years , is doing live pe...

This is Love Hurts. Daralyse Lyons is a writer and storyteller living in Philadelphia. For years, Daralyse struggled with an eating disorder, and when she felt she was finally past it she jumped headfirst into the dating pool. It turned out she wasn’t ready for dating, or for anything really, and had to totally change the way she viewed and lived in the world to start her road to recovery. Our the...

This is Love Hurts. Molly Brenner is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn. Molly went a long time without having an orgasm, and it went from being something she didn’t know she was supposed to care about to something she couldn’t stop thinking about. It became such a big part of her life that she wrote an entire show about it, and then it finally happened. Molly’s show is called I’m Coming . Y...

This is Love Hurts. Negin Farsad is a comedian living in New York City. In this live episode, Negin shares the story of falling for a man abroad, and then how it all fell apart back in New York. She then talks about the lessons she learned from online dating. Negin is frequently a panelist on NPR’s podcast Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me . She also hosts the podcast Fake The Nation . Our theme song is Emo...

This is Love Hurts. Angela Cobb is a comedian living in New York City. Growing up, Angela always dreamt of falling in love, but she was having trouble finding someone who didn’t look at her as a friend. When she decided to own her virginity and started talking about her struggles on stage it helped her feel less pressure on having sex until it finally happened. Angela hosts a monthly show where pe...

This is Love Hurts. Caitlin Steitzer is a therapist and comedian living in Brooklyn. Caitlin talks about two different stories of major relationships in her life that went wrong for different reasons. She shares the takeaways from each of those relationships and how they helped her be in a place to find the person she married. Caitlin co-hosts a podcast called Work It Out with previous guest Megan...

This is Love Hurts. Devan Sandiford is a writer and storyteller living in Brooklyn. Growing up, Devan’s two best friends were twins, and their family welcomed him into their home as one of their own. When the twin’s mom lost a battle with cancer, Devan deeply felt that loss and struggled with how to properly show his grief. Our theme song is EmoTown by Mikki Hommel . Follow Love Hurts on Instagram...

This is Love Hurts. Today’s guests are Ross Martineau and Patrick Holbert. A few years ago, Ross and Patrick were hypothetically talking about opening up their marriage. But when Patrick went and did it without...